This is your chance for a peek into the resources we use (or have used). If you’re after a more detailed review of anything, let me know.
Browse the Bookshelf
Activities
Garden Crafts for children, Dawn Isaac
Baking Bread with children, Warren Lee Cohen
Nature’s Playground, Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
Montessori Play and Learn, Lesley Britton
The Artful Parent, Jean van’t Hul
Playful Learning: Develop Your Child’s Sense of Wonder, Mariah Bruehl
The Rhythm of Family: Discovering a Sense of Wonder through the Seasons, Amanda Blake Soule
Teach Me To Do It Myself, Maja Pitamic
Green Crafts for Children, Emma Hardy
I Love My World, Chris Holland
Spring: Nature Activities for Children, Irmgard Kutsch and Brigitte Walden
The Creative Family, Amanda Blake Soule
Let’s Play Together, Mildred Masheder
Painting with Children, Brunhild Müller
Parenting
Adventures in Gentle Discipline, Hilary Flower
Superpowers for Parents, Dr Stephen Briers
The Secrets of Happy Children, Steve Biddulph
More Secrets of Happy Children, Steve Biddulph
Ages and Stages, Schaefer and DiGeronimo
What’s Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life, Lise Eliot
The Curse of the Good Girl, Rachel Simmons
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and listen so kids will talk, Adele Fabre and Elaine Mazlish
Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Kohn
Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
The Highly Sensitive Child, Elaine N Aron
Remotely Controlled, Dr Aric Sigman
Raising Babies, Steve Biddulph
Letting Go as Children Grow, Deborah Jackson
Toxic Childhood, Sue Palmer
Playful Parenting, Laurence Cohen
Hold on to Your Kids, Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maye
Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children, Meredith F. Small
No Contest: the Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour
The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
The Science of Parenting, Margot Sutherland
Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph
Raising Girls, Steve Biddulph
Nurture by Nature, Tieger and Barron-Tieger
Why Love Matters, Sue Gerhardt
Education
The Prairie Primer, Margie Gray
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Engelmann, Haddox, Bruner
Teaching and Learning in the Early Years, David Whitebread
The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning, Sally Goddard Blythe
The Unschooling Handbook, Mary Griffith
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, Howard Gardner
One to One: A Practical Guide to Learning at Home, Gareth Lewis
Project Based Homeschooling, Lori Pickert
Democracy and Education, John Dewey
Teach Your Own, John Holt and Pat Farenga
Just Playing?, Janet Moyles
The Book of Learning and Forgetting, Frank Smith
The Well Trained Mind: a Guide to Classical Education at Home, Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dance
How Children Learn at Home, Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto
Read With Me: an Apprenticeship Approach to Reading, Liz Waterland
HE-UK journal, edited Mike Fortune-Wood
The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
How Children Think and Learn, David Wood
Threads of Thinking, Cathy Nutbrown
Young Children Learning, Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes
Instead of Education, John Holt
How Children Fail, John Holt
Children’s Minds, Margaret Donaldson
Free To Learn: Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education, Lynne Oldfield
The Secret of Childhood, Maria Montessori
School is Not Compulsory, Education Otherwise
Doing It Their Way, Jan Fortune-Wood
Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf
A Thomas Jefferson Education, Oliver deMille
Mathematical Mindsets, Jo Boaler
Making Thinking Visible, Ritchhart, Church and Morrison
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Element, Ken Robinson
The Number Sense, Dehaene
Personal development
A Gracious Space, Julie Bogart
The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
Smarter Faster Better, Charles Duhigg
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed
Bounce, Matthew Syed
Happier At Home, Gretchen Rubin
Drive, Daniel H. Pink
Before Happiness, Shawn Achor
Please Understand Me II, Keirsey
Getting Things Done, David Allen
Ready For Anything, David Allen
People Skills, Robert Bolton
A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
Children’s non-fiction
The Story of the World, Susan Wise Bauer
Caveman Chemistry, Kevin M Dunn
Children’s fiction
On the iPad
Onebillion Maths
Motion maths: Cupcake, Pizza and Fractions
Tinybop: Me, Space, Human Body
TouchPress: MasterSwords, C3debreakers, 12aDozen
Toca Boca: Builders, Toca Blocks, Toca Doctor, Robot Lab, Toca Town
We Want To Learn: DB numbers, Big Numbers, DragonBox2, Elements
Brain Dots
Euclidea
Smart Numbers
Grammar Pop
Sumaze!
DK TimesTables
TapCoding
Risk!
Epic!
Pocketphonic
Inventioneers
Starfall
Rubek
Two dots
Duolingo
Green riding hood
Star tracker lite
Star view free
LibriVox
Audible
Kindle
iBooks
Coursera
Khan academy
PC and websites
Minecraft
Civilization V
SimCity
Mathbreakers
Prodigy
Scratch
Tynker
Spellodrome
Z.type